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Though Taylor's troupe is one of the most successful in modern dance, it will not clear enough from its Manhattan performances to cover expenses. The lukewarm support for modern dance at home makes it impossible for it to afford anything but the scantiest scenery; the dancers even make their own costumes. To make ends meet, Taylor & Co. will depart this month on their twelfth tour abroad, where they draw six times as many people a year as they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dance: Barefoot Boy with Cheek | 1/6/1967 | See Source »

...proud of Arkansas I could bust! Spending a week there prior to the election, I talked with some of my home state's nonurban residents about voting for Rockefeller. Knowing the mountain people's lukewarm attitude toward "furriners," and rich 'uns to boot, I was anything but confident of his chances. I could only hope that my wonderful Arkansawyers would realize what a dedicated and resourceful man they had going for them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 16, 1966 | 12/16/1966 | See Source »

Tutors who want to reduce the number of thesis writers do not believe that junior generals will upgrade the honors program, Elliot Perkins '23, head tutor in History. said yesterday. He added that a number of tutors are also "lukewarm to opposed" to junior generals because they feel the exam will overshadow junior tutorial...

Author: By Lee H. Simowitz, | Title: History Dept. Revamps Program, Adds Junior Generals, Cuts Essay | 11/1/1966 | See Source »

...record at the old Met speaks for itself: 50 new productions, three U.S. premieres (Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress, Strauss's Arabella, Menotti's The Last Savage), and one world premiere (Barber's Vanessa). His own taste favors Italian opera; he is only lukewarm about Wagner and, with a few exceptions, indifferent to modern. Compared with Milan's La Scala or West Berlin's opera, whose repertories are laced with contemporary works, the Met, as one critic puts it, "remains a coach-and-four in a jet age." Bing has no desire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Opera: Lord of the Manor | 9/23/1966 | See Source »

...White Folks Must Go." So uneasy are some moderates over the growing streak of undirected anger in the rights movement that the N.A.A.C.P. and the Urban League have given the Mississippi march limited and lukewarm support. Their reservations seemed well founded. At one point last week the marchers took up the chant: "Hey, hey, what do you say? White folks must go, must go!" Retorted Mississippi's N.A.A.C.P. Field Director Charles Evers, whose brother Medgar was assassinated three years ago as a result of his civil rights activities: "If we are marching these roads for black supremacy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Civil Rights: The New Racism | 7/1/1966 | See Source »

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